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We consider artificial neurons which will update their weight coefficients with an internal rule based on backpropagation, rather than using it as an external training procedure. To achieve this we include the backpropagation error estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. N. Nazarov

While backpropagation--reverse-mode automatic differentiation--has been extraordinarily successful in deep learning, it requires two passes (forward and backward) through the neural network and the storage of intermediate activations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Daniel Wang , Evan Markou , Dylan Campbell

The backpropagation algorithm is an invaluable tool for training artificial neural networks; however, because of a weight sharing requirement, it does not provide a plausible model of brain function. Here, in the context of a two-layer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Siavash Golkar , David Lipshutz , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

The brain processes information through many layers of neurons. This deep architecture is representationally powerful, but it complicates learning by making it hard to identify the responsible neurons when a mistake is made. In machine…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-04 Timothy P. Lillicrap , Daniel Cownden , Douglas B. Tweed , Colin J. Akerman

The back-propagation algorithm is the cornerstone of deep learning. Despite its importance, few variations of the algorithm have been attempted. This work presents an approach to discover new variations of the back-propagation equation. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Maximilian Alber , Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Prajit Ramachandran , Quoc Le

Backpropagation (BP) is a core component of the contemporary deep learning incarnation of neural networks. Briefly, BP is an algorithm that exploits the computational architecture of neural networks to efficiently evaluate the gradient of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-21 Dirk Ostwald , Franziska Usée

A Deep Neural Network (DNN) is a composite function of vector-valued functions, and in order to train a DNN, it is necessary to calculate the gradient of the loss function with respect to all parameters. This calculation can be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Saeed Damadi , Golnaz Moharrer , Mostafa Cham

Recomputation algorithms collectively refer to a family of methods that aims to reduce the memory consumption of the backpropagation by selectively discarding the intermediate results of the forward propagation and recomputing the discarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mitsuru Kusumoto , Takuya Inoue , Gentaro Watanabe , Takuya Akiba , Masanori Koyama

The backpropagation of error algorithm (backprop) has been instrumental in the recent success of deep learning. However, a key question remains as to whether backprop can be formulated in a manner suitable for implementation in neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Anil K Seth , Christopher L Buckley

A method to increase the precision of feedforward networks is proposed. It requires a prior knowledge of a target function derivatives of several orders and uses this information in gradient based training. Forward pass calculates not only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 V. I. Avrutskiy

Deep neural network architectures have recently produced excellent results in a variety of areas in artificial intelligence and visual recognition, well surpassing traditional shallow architectures trained using hand-designed features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Catalin Ionescu , Orestis Vantzos , Cristian Sminchisescu

Machine learning algorithms, and more in particular neural networks, arguably experience a revolution in terms of performance. Currently, the best systems we have for speech recognition, computer vision and similar problems are based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Michiel Hermans , Michaël Burm , Joni Dambre , Peter Bienstman

The backpropagation algorithm has experienced remarkable success in training large-scale artificial neural networks; however, its biological plausibility has been strongly criticized, and it remains an open question whether the brain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bariscan Bozkurt , Cengiz Pehlevan , Alper T Erdogan

We describe recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which have attracted great attention on sequential tasks, such as handwriting recognition, speech recognition and image to text. However, compared to general feedforward neural networks, RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Gang Chen

Backpropagation algorithm has been widely used as a mainstream learning procedure for neural networks in the past decade, and has played a significant role in the development of deep learning. However, there exist some limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Gongpei Zhao , Tao Wang , Yidong Li , Yi Jin , Congyan Lang , Haibin Ling

Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

Optics is an exciting route for the next generation of computing hardware for machine learning, promising several orders of magnitude enhancement in both computational speed and energy efficiency. However, to reach the full capacity of an…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 James Spall , Xianxin Guo , A. I. Lvovsky

The integration of constrained optimization models as components in deep networks has led to promising advances on many specialized learning tasks. A central challenge in this setting is backpropagation through the solution of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 James Kotary , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Backpropagation (BP) is the standard algorithm for training the deep neural networks that power modern artificial intelligence including large language models. However, BP is energy inefficient and unlikely to be implemented by the brain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Francesco Innocenti

Gradient descent has been a central training principle for artificial neural networks from the early beginnings to today's deep learning networks. The most common implementation is the backpropagation algorithm for training feed-forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stefan Jaeger